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Morning Star Recovery

Morning Star Recovery (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,100 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$102k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$23k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Morning Star Recovery does

Mission

To help individuals suffering from addiction to achieve freedom and healing through a faith-based approach to 12-step recovery.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 12-step instruction to those suffering from addiction. 15 men and 5 women helped in 2025.

    $62,905 spent
    74% of program spending
  2. Financial assistance for shelter rent for individuals seeking help from addiction. 15 men and 5 women helped in 2025.

    $16,028 spent
    19% of program spending
  3. Financial assistance for food and housing for those seeking help from addiction. 15 men and 5 women helped in 2025.

    $5,770 spent
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,703.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($74k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2025 Revenue 173 ($102k) Expenses 115 ($85k) Net assets 388 ($23k)
20242025
Revenue (173)Expenses (115)Net assets (388)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $23k (+288%).

$6k
$23k
20242025
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15k
’24
$17k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Dillon Brabants

Employee Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Morning Star Recovery’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Morning Star Recovery leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Morning Star Recovery.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

79% of Morning Star Recovery's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 1 state.

GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Morning Star Recovery

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Morning Star Recovery?
Morning Star Recovery (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,100 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Morning Star Recovery have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $38,100 in grants to Morning Star Recovery, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Morning Star Recovery?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Morning Star Recovery find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing